Because first element of the array is empty
-----Original Message----- From: sanket vaidya [mailto:sanket.vai...@patni.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:16 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Question about split Hi all, Kindly look at the code below: use warnings; use strict; $_ = 'Welcome to openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64) - Kernel \r (\l).'; my @numbers = split /\D+/; for (0..$#numbers) { print "$_ : $numbers[$_]\n"; } Output: 0 : 1 : 11 2 : 0 3 : 86 4 : 64 Why the first element of @numbers is 'blank'? Kindly explain with example. Thanks & Regards, Sanket Vaidya _____________________________________________________________________ This e-mail message may contain proprietary, confidential or legally privileged information for the sole use of the person or entity to whom this message was originally addressed. Any review, e-transmission dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error kindly delete this e-mail from your records. If it appears that this mail has been forwarded to you without proper authority, please notify us immediately at netad...@patni.com and delete this mail. _____________________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
